Dava Newman: Reusable Rockets

Is there something else that you've been excited about, like reusable rockets, perhaps, that you've seen in the last few years?

Yeah, well, the reusability you had. The reusability is awesome. I mean, it's just the best. Now, we have to remember the shuttle was a reusable vehicle.

Yes.

Which shuttle is an amazing. As an aerospace engineer, you know, I mean, the shuttle is still just the most gorgeous, elegant, extraordinary design of a space vehicle. It was reusable, it just wasn't affordable. But the reusability of it was really critical because we flew it up, it did come back. So the notion of reusability, I think. Absolutely. Now what we're doing with we, you know, the global we, but with SpaceX and Blorge and setting the rockets up, recovering the first stages, where if they can regain 70% cost savings, that's huge. And just seeing the control, you know, the control and dynamics person, just seeing that rocket come back and land, oh, yeah, that's. It never gets old. It's exciting every single time you look at it and say, that's magic. So it's so cool.

To me, the landing is when I stand up, start clapping. Just. Just the control.

Yeah, yeah, Just the, just the algorithm, just the control algorithms. And hitting that landing, it's, you know, it's gymnastics for, for, for rocket ships. But to see these guys stick a landing, it's just wonderful. So every time, like I say, every time I see, you know, the reusability and the rockets coming back and landing so. Precisely, it's really exciting. So, so it is actually, that's a game changer. We are in a new era of lower cost and higher frequency. And it's the world, not just NASA, it's many nations are really upping their frequency of launches.